Motivational Quotes

Action

The greatest of all mistakes is to do nothing because you can only do a little. Do what you can.

- Smith, Sydney

Best Quotes about Action

Take the first step, and your mind will mobilize all its forces to your aid. But the first essential is that you begin. Once the battle is startled, all that is within and without you will come to your assistance.

Collier, Robert

Effective action is always unjust.

Anouilh, Jean

No one will do it for you.

Stein, Ben

When a man dies, what does not leave him? The voice of a dead man goes into fire, his breath into wind, his eyes into the sun, his mind into the moon, his hearing into the quarters of heaven, his body into the land cheerfully. earth, his spirit into space

Upanishads, Veda

The link between ideas and action is rarely direct. There is almost always an intermediate step in which the idea is overcome. De Tocqueville points out that it is at times when passions start to govern human affairs that ideas are most obviously translated into political action. The translation of ideas into action is usually in the hands of people least likely to follow rational motives. Hence, it is that action is often the nemesis of ideas, and sometimes of the men who formulate them. One of the marks of the truly vigorous society is the ability to dispense with passion as a midwife of action the ability to pass directly from thought to action.

Hoffer, Eric

Sings. Hope in every sphere of life is a privilege that attaches to action. No action, no hope.

Levi, Peter

The greatest of all mistakes is to do nothing because you can only do a little. Do what you can.

Smith, Sydney

One of the greatest and simplest tools for learning more and growing is doing more.

Roger, John

There is a tendency for things to right themselves.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The only correct actions are those that demand no explanation and no apology.

Auerbach, Red

11.

Many have too much, but none enough.

Proverb, Danish

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A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.

Angelou, Maya

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It was prettily devised of Aesop, The fly sat on the axle tree of the chariot wheel and said,what dust do I raise!

Bacon, Francis

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From small beginnings come great things.

Proverb, American

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He who limps is still walking.

Lec, Stanislaw J.

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Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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I did not wish to take a cabin passage, but rather to go before the mast and on the deck of the world, for there I could best see the moonlight amid the mountains. I do not wish to go below now.

Thoreau, Henry David

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I never worry about action, but only inaction.

Churchill, Winston

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Satisfaction of one's curiosity is one of the greatest sources of happiness in life.

Pauling, Linus

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You don't have to get it right the first time.

Sher, Barbara

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Your difficulty and my difficulty and the difficulty of every individual who ever desired to achieve something worthwhile, comes in the movement.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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Do not wait; the time will never be just right. Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along.

Hill, Napoleon

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Before you can do something you must first be something.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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As I grow older, I pay less attention to what people say. I just watch what they do.

Carnegie, Andrew

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If you want a thing done, go. If not, send. The shortest answer is doing.

Proverb, English

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There is a vitality, a life force, a quickening that is translated through you into action, and there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique, and if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium; and be lost. The world will not have it. It is not your business to determine how good it is, not how it compares with other expression. It is your business to keep it yours clearly and directly, to keep the channel open. You do not even have to believe in yourself or your work. You have to keep open and aware directly to the urges that motivate you. Keep the channel open. No artist is pleased. There is no satisfaction whatever at any time. There is on a queer, divine dissatisfaction, a blessed unrest that keeps us marching and makes us more alive than the others.

Graham, Martha

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What we need is to use what we have.

Walsh, Basil S.

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Satisfaction consists in freedom from pain, which is the positive element of life.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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The ancestor of every action is thought.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one's thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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If you keep thinking about what you want to do or what you hope will happen, you don't do it, and it won't happen.

Dimaggio, Joe

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Follow effective action with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action.

Levin, James

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Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.

Garibaldi, Giuseppe

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When we don't have what we like, we must like what we have.

Proverb, French

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The deed is everything, the glory is naught.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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You must get involved to have an impact. No one is impressed with the won-lost record of the referee.

Holcomb, John H.

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Oh, I'm not going to do anything to them. The thought that I might will be enough to keep them going.

Bowkett, Chris

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It's motive alone which gives character to the actions of men.

Bruyere, Jean De La

39.

Good things happen to those who hustle.

Noll, Chuck

40.

All rivers run into the sea, yet the sea is not full.

Bible

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Like other revolutionaries I can thank God for the reactionaries. They clarify the issue.

Collingwood, Robin G.

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Two-thirds of promotion is motion

43.

The only way you can bring in the harvest in the fall is to plant in the spring, and to water, weed, fertilize in the summer

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You prove your worth with your actions, not with your mouth.

Riley, Pat

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The road of life can only reveal itself as it is traveled; each turn in the road reveals a surprise. Man's future is hidden.

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Most people of action are inclined to fatalism and most of thought believe in providence.

Balzac, Honore De

47.

There is no use trying, said Alice; one can't believe impossible things. I dare say you haven't had much practice, said the Queen. When I was your age, I always did it for half an hour a day. Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.

Carroll, Lewis

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Doing leads more surely to talking than talking to doing.

Vinet

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Mark this well, you proud men of action! you are, after all, nothing but unconscious instruments of the men of thought.

Heine, Heinrich

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An ant on the move does more than a dozing ox.

Proverb, Mexican